More 2D stuff, fresh out of the oven!

So, I came across this cool homework at ctrl+paint, where I should take two animals and mix them up for creature creation practice. It sounded like it could be amusing, so I decided to give it a try. To make it bit more difficult, I wanted someone else to pick the animals, so I wouldn’t subconsciously choose easy targets. The given animals were a hippo and a camel. Below is the final painting. What a “majestic” looking steed. 😀 Overall I’m mostly happy how it turned out, only the hair fell bit below expectations (really need to work on how to express fluffyness!) Maybe the feet have somewhat a floating feeling too. The platform and the grass worked out surprisingly nice too. Sure, this is no way the kind of quality I would put to my gallery yet and try to sell it of as high quality concept art, but I feel like there is a good thing going. Besides having the feeling that the tutorials are really starting to sink in, I feel that the inner spark to draw has finally genuinely caught fire.

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My sketches are still bit blurry by nature…

All colored up in his wobbly glory. 🙂

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